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Beyond the Wall, Season 3 Episode 11

We've outdone ourselves again, if we say so ourselves (and we do). Also, we run... borderline ridiculously long. It's been 5 years since our last Deluxe box, we're allowed to get excited. We start with the news (Did you hear?: Wolves of the North was released!). To celebrate the release, we bring on Chris S. to tell us about his local release-day event in SoCal. A tip of the week, and then we're off to the races to review the deluxe box, adapting our "player types" format to the larger box. I won't give away what player types we have this week, but the players themselves include 2 Time World Champ* Sam B., Calling the Banners's Kody C., and Thrones designer Danny S.. Yes, that's right. They then proceed to rub in the fact that they all have local regionals you should attend, and Darknoj and I do not.

Warning: This episode contains more than your dailymonthlyannual recommended dose of Mountain jokes.

Errata:-Neither the Tournoi de la Main nor Zaragoza will be using Wolves of the North.-James W won a 25+ man SC with Tyrell in early March, but it didn't make it to the Annals until recently, hence it slipping my mind.

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Great episode, as usually. I'm really looking forward for our first polish Regionals in Szczecin next weekend to see how the new Stark box will do among all those Lannisters, Targaryens, Baratheons and Greyjoys.

And by the way: our polish edition Wolves of the North box is made of a solid cardboard, like the old 1st edition ones. Which surprised me after I listened two the last episode. It's nice, especially because it have an extraordinary artwork on it.

And by the way: our polish edition Wolves of the North box is made of a solid cardboard, like the old 1st edition ones. Which surprised me after I listened two the last episode. It's nice, especially because it have an extraordinary artwork on it.

That's really weird. Presumably it involves a slightly different layout and templating - so additional work for the graphic designer. I always assumed that while localization was done, umm, locally, the printing process was still centralized (in China) - this would imply there's at least one other printing facility - possibly in Germany (according to their "upcoming" site)? I'd be curious to get a good comparison of the cardstock and other printing features.

Another great episode as usual. I just have one piece of constructive criticism. Can you please include more facts about Ser Gregor Clegane. I find this character very interesting and love hearing more information about him. It helps with my immersion into the game.

At the time the tournament was completed (and I had access to the stats), the Annals were down. The Annals went back up when it was too late for me to do it myself, and by the time a local player got to the store they'd already chucked the stats. We recreated the stats as best we could, and submitted them to the Annals with only 4 unknowns out of 29 players and the top 16 players in order by the swiss. Not good enough to count for Alex though .

Edit: and the only tournament that's actually been held locally to me, the stats went up on the Annals the same day.

i can'tget this episode to appear in my iPodcasts feed, is it only up here on CGDB?

From our facebook page:

This week's episode, partly due to the way it got pushed early (with a timestamp 'in the future' of when it was uploaded) bugged out a few podcast tools. Many handled it well (BeyondPod, Podcatcher, Pocketcasts), while others... not so much (itunes, podcast addict). If you're using one that didn't work, you should be able to unsub/resub and fix the issue immediately. Otherwise, the problem should resolve naturally next Sunday when I update the feed again correctly.